Whodunit Column by Bruce Tierney

Now that Chief Inspector van Veeteren has retired, forsaking the cop’s life for that of a bookseller, Intendent Münster must step up to the plate in Håkan Nesser’s Münster’s Case. Nevertheless, Münster still consults his longtime mentor on hard cases, and the murder of septuagenarian Waldemar Leverkuhn looks like it will be a doozy. Leverkuhn was one of four friends who...

Audio Column by Sukey Howard

The chef/owner of Prune, a small but hugely successful Manhattan restaurant, Gabrielle Hamilton has shied away from the celebrity chef route; she’s not on TV, doesn’t churn out cookbooks, doesn’t have an eponymous line of products. But she is an eloquent cook and writer—and, as it happens, an eloquent narrator—and her memoir Blood, Bones & Butter simmers...